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How Motion Found its North Star, and Where it’s Headed

Derived from COO Joe Limbaugh's fireside session at MDM's 2023 SHIFT Conference, we dive into Motion's 5-year and ongoing organizational transformation.

January 4, 2024

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Power transmission and MRO supplies distributor Motion has been on a multi-year digital and sales transformation journey that has led the company to achieve a sales CAGR of 12.4% from 2019 through 2022 alongside 240 basis points of net margin improvement in that stretch. Throw in its landmark

$1.3 billion acquisition of Kaman Distribution Group

completed at the start of 2022 — which combined MDM’s No. 1 and 3 power transmission and fluid power distributors — and it paints a picture of organizational change on a large scale. Motion had 2022 sales of $8.4 billion, which charted it at No. 2 on

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